Dave Trumfio | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 16, 1968 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, mixer, recording engineer, composer, musician |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Labels | Kingsize Platters Almo Sounds Rondor/Universal |
| Website | kingsizesoundlabs |
David Trumfio (born August 16, 1968) is an American record producer, mixer, engineer and musician, best known for his production work with artists such as Wilco and his recordings with his own band The Pulsars.
Production work
Trumfio grew up in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and was a staff engineer after apprenticing at Seagrape Recording Studios.[1] He started his home studio, Kingsize Recording Den, and officially opened Kingsize Soundlabs in Chicago's Wicker Park district in 1991 with partner Mike Hagler.[1] He currently resides in Los Angeles and runs Kingsize SoundLabs, a recording studio in Glassell Park, California.
"Dave Trumfio knew he wanted to make recording his life from the day he bought his first multitrack, a Fostex X15 4 track, way back in 1984."[2]
His early work included recordings by Evil Beaver, The Mekons, Wilco, Alternative TV, Young Marble Giants guitarist Stewart Moxham and British rock band The Pretty Things.[3]
He has since worked with acts such as Wilco,[4][5] OK Go,[6][7] and Patrick Park.[8][9]
Trumfio has worked for independent record labels such as Merge, TeenBeat Records, Touch and Go Records/Quarterstick Records, Minty Fresh, Simple Machines, Darla Records and Vagrant. He has also produced recordings by singer songwriter Patrick Park,[10] chamber pop band The Aluminum Group,[11][12] funk musicians The Baldwin Brothers,[4][13] Number One Cup,[14] and Franklin Bruno.[15]
Trumfio has more recently worked with Built To Spill,[16] American Music Club, Booker T, new wave revivalists The Rentals, and Australian band Papa vs Pretty.[17]
Musician
Trumfio was the frontman in the 90's new-wave band The Pulsars, in which he did "everything but play the drums", his brother Harry acting as the band's drummer.[18] After releasing their debut single, the band signed to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss's post A&M venture Almo Sounds in 1995,[19] and released an album and two EPs.
He also played in Ashtray Boy,[19][20] The Mekons (intermittently),[19] in Sally Timms' band,[21] and on The Aluminum Group's Plano album.[22] After bassist Sarah Corina left the Mekons in 2015, Trumfio replaced her, at least through 2019.[23][24]
Production discography
1991–1999
- Big Jack Johnson — Daddy, When Is Mama Comin' Home (1991)
- Mr. Fingers — Introduction (1992)
- Certain Distant Suns — Huge E.P. (1992)
- Ashtray Boy — Honeymoon Suite (1993)
- Certain Distant Suns — Happy on the Inside (1994)
- Various Artists — Insurgent Country, Vol.1: For a Life of Sin (Bloodshot Records, 1994)
- DQE — But Me, I Fell Down (1994)
- Pigface — Notes from Thee Underground (1994)
- The Mekons — Retreat from Memphis (1994)
- The Pretty Things — Wine, Women & Whiskey: More Chicago Blues & Rock Sess (1994)
- Jonboy Langford & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts — Misery Loves Company: Songs of Johnny Cash (1995)
- The Handsome Family — Odessa (1995)
- Number One Cup — Possum Trot Plan (1995)
- Holiday — Holiday (1995)[25]
- Number One Cup — Divebomb (1996)
- The Handsome Family — Milk and Scissors (1996)
- Yum-Yum — Dan Loves Patti (1996)
- The Coctails — Live at Lounge Ax (1996)
- Holiday — Ready, Steady, Go (1996)
- Butterglory — Are You Building a Temple in Heaven (1996)
- Rico Bell — Return of Rico Bell (1996)
- Motorhome — Sex Vehicle (1996)
- The Pulsars — Submission to the Masters (1996)
- Godzuki — Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1996)
- The Pulsars — Pulsars (1997)
- Palace Music — Lost Blues & Other Songs (1997)
- Tsunami — Brilliant Mistake (1997)
- hollAnd — Your Orgasm (1997)
- Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue (1998)
- Aluminum Group — Plano (1998)
- The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group — Sniff (1998)
- Sally Timms — Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (1999)
- Wilco — Summerteeth (1999)
- Floraline — Floraline (1999)[26]
2000–2009
- Tristeza — Dream Signals In Full Circles (2000)
- Aden — Hey 19 (2000)
- Koufax — It Had to Do With Love (2000)
- Billy Bragg & Wilco — Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 (2000)
- The Prescriptions — Why We Don't Rent to Women (2000)
- My Morning Jacket — At Dawn (2001)
- Jenny Toomey — Antidote (2001)
- Justin Planasch — Roam (2001)
- Gift Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2001)
- Wayne Kramer — Adult World (2002)
- Franklin Bruno — Cat May Look at a Queen (2002)
- The Baldwin Brothers — Cooking with Lasers (2002)
- Irving — Good Morning Beautiful (2002)
- Various Artists — MTV2 Handpicked, Vol. 2 (2002)
- Mates of State — Our Constant Concern (2002)
- Koufax — Social Life (2002)
- Ok Go — Get Over It (2002)
- Slowrider — Nacimiento (2002)
- Ok Go — Ok Go (2002)
- Earlimart — Avenues (2003)
- Patrick Park — Loneliness Knows My Name (2003)
- The Sun — Love & Death (2003)
- Jamison Parker — Notes & Photographs EP (2003)
- Underworld Original Soundtrack — Original Soundtrack (2003)
- The Velvet Teen — Elysium (2004)
- Chuck Prophet — Age Of Miracles (2004)
- Kool Keith/Kutmasta Kurt — Break U Off/Takin' It Back (2004)
- Thelonious Monster — California Clam Chowder (2004)
- Simon Joyner — Lost with the Lights On (2004)
- Elkland — Apart (2005)
- Elkland — Apart (The Remixes) (2005)
- Elkland — Golden (2005)
- Nothing Painted Blue — Taste the Flavor (2005)
- Koufax – Hard Times Are in Fashion (2005)
- Grandaddy — Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla (2005)
- Grandaddy — Just Like the Fambly Cat (2006)
- Future Pigeon — Echodelic Sounds of Future Pigeon (2006)
- The Baldwin Brothers — The Return of the Golden Rhodes (2006)
- The Adored — New Language (2006)
- Devics — Push the Heart (2006)
- Nadine Zahr — Underneath the Everyday (2006)
- Earlimart[27] — Mentor Tormentor (2007)
- Acute — Arms Around a Stranger (2007)
- Let's Go Sailing — Chaos in Order (2007)
- Patrick Park — Everyone's in Everyone (2007)
- Kristin Mooney — Hydroplane (2007)
- American Music Club — Golden Age (2008)
- E for Explosion — Reinventing the Heartbeat (2008)
- Great Northern — Sleepy Eepee (2008)
- Devics — Distant Radio (2008)
- The Rentals — Songs About Time (2009)
- Built to Spill — There Is No Enemy (2009)
- MC Lars — This Gigantic Robot Kills (2009)
2010–present
(incomplete)
- Papa vs Pretty — White Deer Park (2014)[28]
- Mekons — Deserted (2019)[29]
- Dogstar — Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees (2023)[30]
References
- 1 2 Kening, Dan (1996) "Rising stars The Trumfio brothers are ready to shine with a record deal and an upcoming Pulsars' album", Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), November 29, 1996
- ↑ Archived June 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Weisbard, Eric (1997) "Pulsars Pulsars", SPIN, April 1997, p.155-6, retrieved January 8, 2012
- 1 2 Baranowski, Niles (2001) "O.A.R. and the Baldwin Brothers", Riverfront Times, August 15, 2001, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ "Wilco – Summer Teeth". CD Universe. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
- ↑ Archived August 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Shop Unavailable". VintageMicrophone.com. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ↑ Deming, Mark "Come What Will Review", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ "Patrick Park – Loneliness Knows My Name CD Album". Cduniverse.com. February 3, 2004. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ↑ Santangelo, Antonia (2003) "Patrick Park Under the Unminding Skies", CMJ New Music Monthly, June 2003, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Richards, David (1999) "Minty Fresh's Floraline Gives '80s-Style Pop a New Spin for the Present", Billboard, May 1, 1999, p. 16, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Ankeny, Jason "Plano Review", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Farr, Sara (2002) "File TVT Records artist the Baldwin Brothers under 'junktronic'", Prefix, January 1, 2002, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Bush, Nathan "Possum Trot Plan Review", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Sarvady, Glen (2002) "Franklin Bruno – A Cat May Look at a Queen", CMJ New Music Monthly, November 2002, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Paine, Kelsey (2009) "Buolt to Spill There Is No Enemy", Billboard, October 17, 2009, p. 33, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ "Exclusive: Papa Vs Pretty announce new album, shows". Fasterlouder.com.au. August 26, 2013. Archived from the original on August 27, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ↑ Molanphy, Chris (1997) "Pulsars / Pulsars", CMJ New Music Monthly, May 1997, p. 12, retrieved January 8, 2012
- 1 2 3 Anderson, Lydia (1996) "Pulsars", CMJ New Music Monthly, November 1996, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Rothschild, David (1996) "Ashtray Boy's Future Rests on New Releases and Psychic Connection", Chicago Tribune, June 7, 1996, p. 6, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Sullivan, Jim (1995) "Timms' new act: melancholy cabaret", Boston Globe, May 11, 1995, p. 71
- ↑ Romero, Michele (1998) "Music Review: 'Plano' (1998) The Aluminum Group", Entertainment Weekly, August 21, 1998, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Kirsch, Steve (July 18, 2015). ""It looks like an accident...." Live review: The Mekons, Harrisburg, PA, July 17, 2015". Kirsch, Steve. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ↑ Terrell, Steve (August 11, 2017). "I was at Mekonville. Where were you?". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
- ↑ Klein, Joshua "Holiday Review", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Phares, Heather "Floraline Review", Allmusic, retrieved January 8, 2012
- ↑ Archived October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Exclusive: Papa Vs Pretty announce new album, shows". FasterLouder.com.au. Archived from the original on August 27, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Information on the website of Bloodshot Records
- ↑
External links
- The Pulsars official website
- Dave Trumfio: Monthly Special at vintageking.com
- Interview with Dave Trumfio (Wilco, OK Go, Patrick Park) at vintagemicrophone.com